Re: I'd like a good book on... [the book request thread]
A few years back I read Michael Huemer's book "The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey" and I've yet to come across any political philosophy that convinced me that I should participate in implied or coerced exchanges of "fairness" or "equality" that do not align with my personal values - yet this is how modern society largely functions. I'm interested in counterpoints that would support the moral foundation for participation in societal exchanges of that nature; who has a good book to recommend countering Robert Nozick, J.S. Mill et al? Or, who has written a convincing 20th- or 21st-century argument for utilitarianism?
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